1st Edition
Writing Chinese Laws The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus
By Ernest Caldwell
Copyright 2018
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as the primary means for maintaining administrative and social control.
This book utilizes both traditional texts and archeologically excavated... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Social Change and Written Law in Pre-Imperial China
3. Inscribing Control in Qin
4. The Anatomy of a Qin Legal Statute I
5. The Anatomy of a Qin Legal Statute II
6. Conclusion
Biography
Ernest Caldwell is Assistant Professor in the School of Law at SOAS, University of London, UK. He specializes in legal history, environmental law, and public law in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
